h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I'm too devastated right now after having lost so many online friends in one go to post anything that would be calm and polite...

So i will just mark for now and come back later with my ...


loup[in mourning]

hmm...

I'm thinking about a child - a nice enough looking little kid swaying idly in a swing and blissing out as the sun warms her head. Thing is, the girl in question is picking her nose . This disgusts some of the other little kids to no end. "What a nasty kid!" exclaims one, "She just can't behave that way!" Another scratches her cheek and replies, "Well, it's not like you have to look at her, is it?" First kid fumes, "But look! Not only is she nasty, but she's taking up a swing!" Second kid looks pointedly at the other dozen or so vacant swings.

The complaining child gathers about himself other irate youngsters. They mutter amongst themselves. "Stupid kid." "Yeah. Nose picker." "You know, I think there's a rule about this." Lightning strikes collectively between the gathered skulls, and off they go running to the playground supervisor.

"Duty! Duty! There's a kid over there hogging a swing and picking her nose!" The duty teacher squints at the child in question, who at that point is still blissed-out in the sunshine. "Isn't it against the rules?! Huh?!" The duty leafs through her clipboard. Hums a bit. "Yes, yes, here it is - 'There shall be no monopolizing of swings whilst escavating one's nasal passages.'"

The children howl victoriously, and drag the duty over to kick the kid out of the park. Interrupted from her happy contemplation to a horde of angry kids calling for her banishment, the child sadly trudges back home to play by herself.

The moral of the story - a person has every right to alert the proper authorities to misbehavior, no matter how harmless. By my, what an a****le.

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of he always declares that it is his duty."

- George Bernard Shaw

well said az

I'm too angry and upset to post anything else

*dang, this turned up as one of those negative-number-of-new-postings conversation*

Az, GBS just isn't read enough these days.

I can't find anything else to say. I'm busy emailing those users-in-exile for whom I have email addresses, just trying to keep in touch...

Ivan,

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Oh, how about that this spiteful and childishly vindictive act against digibox users is nothing short of despicable? Will that do?



az

That'll do .

And will someone please be good enough to at least laugh in passing at my Snotty Kid Fable?

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AKA - also known as the invisible man, who managed to access using digibox without stealing any bandwith..

SATURNINE - another ex digibox user... you have named yourself after the wrong planet, Uranus suits you so much better.

I'm afraid words fail me but I will say that NEVER in all my years of 'chatting' have I ever come across such vindictiveness and to find it on hootoo has shocked me to the core.

S

Az, you have, I think, found an appropriate form of words. I was struggling.

Nyssa - I did like the fable, and I smirked a bit. The laughter circuits are out of commission at the moment...

i bet if aka's and SATURINE's only means to still access hootoo was from digibox they would not have made all this fuss,and helped in the banning of digibox users.

I think they have made them selfs very unpopular by there actions,and any unpleasant feed back resulting from there actions will be there own doing!!
In my opinion i feel aka as abused the privalage of the groups he represents.
YES he is entitled to an opinion and is entitled to state that opinion BUT its the way hes gone about it,he as been argumentative sarcastic and created a number of threads regarding digibox users.
in my opinion he as flamed and trolled therefore he is just as bad if not worse as those he acuses.
H2G2 will never be the same again with out digibox users.
and is going to be a very quite place to be.

M~A Ace

"one or two users would not have had a significant affect on the performance of Telewest services."

Exactly. Not only did a lot of digiboxers swear that they have no intention to stop abusing their service, get a PC and settle down properly, but it is just the collective bunch of digiboxers who eat up Telewest's bandwidth. A few people can't do that.

"one website could cause any serious problems."
When it's popular, it can, and will. Just look what happens to h2g2 when it gets a mention on TV. We all remember the effects of it being featured on that BBC Two Tribute to Douglas Adams. It's the same effect, only it's happening at the ISP(and I use that term lightly!) end.

It's not just h2g2, by the way. Keep in mind the vast array of other DNA sites, other BBC Communities... They're all where bandwidth is getting lost on.

"Uranus suits you so much better."

So low.

So, so low.

"any unpleasant feed back resulting from there actions will be there own doing!!"

Actually, any unpleasant feedback will be due to the complete lack of understanding of anybody distributing the feedback. Why can't more of you be like GreyDesk for instance. Possibly unaware of the whole issue, keeping quiet on the unfamiliar parts and flinging absolutely no personal abuse.

Despite what the movies may or not have been, it's been done. If you wish to call me any names, you can do so on my Space. Don't bother in this thread.

AKA, so sorry I had to bring myself down to your level but at least mine are just words, yours were very nasty actions.

S

No.

Points of view are always welcome, but if it does end up in a slanging match then posts will end up being moderated and then nobody will get to hear what anyone has to say, and some valid comments not available for the rest of the site to read.

Even though I can intellectually follow the rationale that has been given, I find it appalling and entirely compassionless that action was taken on it.

Yes.

Also if you reduce your posts to mere "You're an evil little ", then the person on the receiving end of this statement is going to think nothing more of the person distributing it than a - well. Suffice it to say that I'd rather listen to your comments minus criticism. It makes your posts so much more worth reading!

*reminds those reading that 'getting digibox users off the site' was not the primary reason*

I would call the actions of telewest foolish and selfish, as I would the actions of everyone who does anything purely out of self interest. A lot of the digibox users I knew on here were disabled, unable to get up and use a computer, and with the support that the government offers, unable to afford a laptop to use on the sofa. So, it was ilegal, and a loophole and these actions have been justified with priest like piety, as if by someone who has never exploited a lopphole, well done by the way if you haven't, and do tell how the hell have you got through life without doing so? I wont actually blame you for protecting your bandwidth, telewest do it by limiting bandwidth used for TV on their cable system (I'm yet to see a truly great picture from their digibox, nothing better than analogue yet) but to cut off so many people who need this site as the means of a social life, however limited, that just makes me sad.